Seras stumbled down the hall of an old building as blood dripped from several stab wounds. Without warning Seras collapsed to the floor dropping Alucard's head.

"M-Master…" Seras barely choked out as blood dribbled from her mouth.

"You've finally given up…bow down to your slaughter abomination…" A tall man said as he stalked Seras. Mana quickly ran down the opposite hall towards Seras ready to protect her from this unknown man.

"Miss Victoria!" Mana shouted.

"R-Run," Seras choked out.

"For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. Dust to Dust," the unknown blond haired man continue to approach Seras as he held out his arms. Mana quickly glanced over the man as she stood her ground in front of Seras.

"Bayonets?" Mana said quietly.

The man stopped a few feet in front of Mana and sized her up. Instantly Mana knew who Seras' stalker was, the white collar gave him away.

"Father Anderson of Iscariot you are violating the agreement set between the Protestant Knight and the Catholic Church. Leave immediately," Mana stated calmly. Anderson laughed and sighed heavily.

"They somehow managed to pull you into their trap such a young heart to be lost to the harlot's word," Anderson said bitterly.

"Watch your words Father," Mana replied ignoring the cold tingling feeling run up her spine.

She had read about a few members of Iscariot , and Father Anderson was far from a normal catholic priest. Unfortunately more detailed information about him was scarce. Mana knew that he had extreme hatred for Hellsing and knew that leaving Seras was unacceptable.

"You protect that harlot? She was damned the moment she was born into the Hellsing Family."

Mana felt herself tense at Anderson's statement. Integra was her leader, and allowing him to speak ill of her in front of her was wrong. Her arms twitched underneath her Hellsing cape, she had to bite her tongue from charging at him in anger.

"If you speak ill of me do it to my face," Integra's voice echoed from behind her.

"Sir Integra. I did not know you were coming…" Mana trailed off as she kept her eyes on Anderson. Without warning Anderson lunged at Integra, in a black blur Mana was in front of Integra blocking Anderson's bayonets. Anderson pressed forward feeling that Mana's arms were trembling from his pressure.

"Supernatural regenerative ability…the power of regeneration beyond any biotechnology…and you call me a monster," Integra hissed at Anderson from behind Mana.

"Your forces are pathetic just like you," Anderson said as a large grin appeared on his lips.

"Your prized agent is dead. I easily cut off his head and I'll easily cut through this little girl,"

"You're will have to try harder Father," Mana mocked as she began to gather her strength and push back. Integra chuckled from behind Mana catching the two off guard.

"You only cut off his head?" Integra snorted.

"Mana," Integra started as if she was giving an order.

Mana suddenly pushed Anderson back and delivered a swift high kick causing Anderson to stumble back further.

"Keep away from Sir and Integra and Mana!" Seras yelled from behind Anderson. She no longer carried Alucard's head, she had her rifle loaded and aimed at Anderson.

You have no chance of winning Anderson. If you still wish to consider yourself among the living I suggest you leave, now." Integra suggested.

Suddenly a bat flew pass Mana's face towards Seras, seconds later a flock of bats flew pass Mana taking up majority of the hall way. Anderson swiped at the bats that flew at him.

"Come now Father Anderson you really didn't think you were dealing with another vampire did you? Such techniques will not kill him. Like yourself he is the fruit of our research for battling the inhuman. The Royal Protestant Knights spent 100 years on his making," Integra stated.

Mana watched in awe as the swarm of bats began to form a figure. Seconds later the form was complete.

"M-Master!" Seras squeaked in surprise.

"Alucard," Mana whispered.

Anderson looked in awe as the one he decapitated was now standing in front of him unhurt.

"Make your move Anderson," Integra ordered. Mana had slid into a defensive stance in front of Integra ready for Anderson to make a move. She knew that he wouldn't attempt to make a move towards Integra with Alucard there.

"I see…under the current circumstances this cannot be resolved," Anderson sneered at Integra. Suddenly pages of Holy Scriptures began to gather around Anderson concealing him.

"Next time you all will die by my hands," was Anderson's last statement before he vanished with the Holy Scriptures.

Seras collapsed to her knees in exhaustion, Integra walked pass Mana towards Alucard. Mana retracted her blades and lowered her arms, instantly they felt like jelly. Mana bit her lower lip hard as she shook feeling back into them, before she approached Seras.

"Miss Victoria are you alright?" Mana asked as she knelt next to her.

"I'm…ughn! Fine," Seras replied as she felt herself slowly healing.

"Its been a while since I've had my head cut off," Alucard chuckled.

"Looks like the Vatican owes us, big time," Integra said to herself

"You don't look too well Miss Victoria," Mana said as she noticed that Seras looked paler than usual. Integra grimaced at the two women and looked back at Alucard.

"How is she?" Integra asked as she took a small cigar from her pocket and lit it.

"She's doing ok," Alucard replied and ran his gloved hand through his unruly hair.

Mana stood and stepped back from Seras feeling she was really ill. She turned to glance at Alucard in his unruly state; she had noticed he was no longer wearing his normal red attire but a black suit with straps around the arms and legs. Her attention was soon diverted elsewhere as a flicker of light outside the window.

"A sniper?" Mana thought to herself and moved towards Integra.

"Sir Integra you're not-" Mana started as she stood in front of her.

A muffled gunshot was heard as glass shattered inside the building, Alucard threw his hand in front of Mana's face capturing the bullet.

"Bloody Hell!" Integra yelled as she looked up at Mana and Alucard from the floor. Mana's cobalt blue eyes looked into Alucard's crimson eyes.

"You left yourself wide open little scientist," Alucard said smoothly.

"I was perfectly fine. Arigatou…thanks," Mana corrected herself.

"Master!" Seras said as she stumbled to stand.

"I'm fine. Here…it's a holy bullet," Alucard said as he took Mana's hand and placed the bullet in her palm.

"Another Assassination attempt?" Integra asked as she brushed herself off.

"Judging by the angle…" Mana said as she looked to where the bullet pieced the glass and the possible trajectory.

"ichi…ni…san…shi…It would have been another warning shot," Mana answered. Integra looked towards the window staying in the shadows, she glanced at Mana and sighed.

"Sometimes I think you're not human Mana." Integra scoffed as she looked at her cigar on the floor.

"I am sure that I am human Sir Integra," Mana replied.

"Let's return." Integra started and headed towards the door, Mana walked next to her shielding her from any other gunfire.

"Contact is Eminent…Milo."

"Excellent…Lets see how well she plays,"

Walter welcomed Integra and Mana back to the Manor, as Integra walked towards her office with Walter Mana bowed and began walking towards the right wing of the manor.

"You're back," Cain said as he noticed she was walking towards him. Mana nodded as she stopped in front of him.

"Yes, How are you fairing?" Mana asked taking note of the strange look Cain gave her.

"Sleeping is still hard. Dimitri claims he's fine but I can tell the sleepless nights are getting to the both of us," Cain replied and sighed.

Mana glanced over Cain taking note of the dark rings under his eyes. Cain rain his hands through his hair in frustration.

"Go find Dimitri and meet me in the kitchen in ten minutes," Mana started as she began to walk away leaving Cain confused.

"Ocha?" Mana asked herself quietly as she made her way to the kitchen.

Ten minutes later Cain cautiously walked into the kitchen followed by a disgruntled Dimitri, Mana was standing behind the small island in the kitchen. In front of her on the island were three small cups.

"Um?" Cain started, Mana held up her hand to silence him.

"Sit,"

The two men complied and sat silently on the stools placed in front of the island.

"There isn't much I can do to help you cope with your sleepless nights…but I offer you a way to calm yourself down to attempt to sleep." Mana started.

Cain and Dimitri looked at each other confused. Over the past week Mana had been spending time with the two men to help them cope with seeing the deaths of the former Hellsing employees. She had kept them busy and their minds focus on other things instead of allowing them to think of the horrible event. Because of this the two men became closer to her and also avoided her frosty glares.

Mana turned her back to the two men concealing what was on the stove

"Fortunately for you Sir Integra has extra…"Mana started.

"Is that cinnamon?" Dimitri asked as the scent of spice filled his nose.

"Yes," Mana replied as she turned around to reveal her holding a kettle.

"Tea?" Cain asked.

" Yes. Camomile Tea. I thought about making green tea, but Camomile seemed better or is better." Mana said as she poured the chamomile tea into the three small cups.

"Seriously?" Cain asked. Dimitri ran his hand through his ebony hair and sighed.

"Anything to get me to sleep," Dimitri replied his voice husky.

"You sounds like you were sleeping…" Mana said as she gently pushed the two cups towards the two men.

"No…I've been meditating…or at least trying to." Dimitri replied.

"I don't know how you can still attempt to do that…" Cain trailed off as he blew the tea to cool it down.

"Its called training Cain." Dimitri replied as she inhaled the scent of the tea.

Mana looked at the two men as they carefully sipped their tea. She made mental a note to ask them more about their training. Judging by their reactions from last week she assumed that they were not prepared to see their coworkers being eaten alive by their undead coworkers.

"You're not trying to poison us are you?" Cain asked as he was about to take a sip of the tea.

"I would have done it already," Mana replied as she sipped at her tea.

"Ouch. Still giving me the cold shoulder" Cain said as sipped his tea. Mana shrugged and looked away from the two men, a yawn escaped her lips. She quickly covered her mouth.

"You're tired too," Dimitri commented.

"Not really." Mana replied.

"C'mon Mana you are not Wonder Woman," Cain added as she carefully sat down his tea.

"Urusai…" Mana mumbled.

She was tired, and had yet to recover from all of cleaning and research she and the two men had done. To add to her tiredness Integra had sent her on her first mission, and was definitely not prepared for what occurred, Father Anderson making his appearance.

It was a fact that she was able to sleep better than the two men some nights, other nights not entirely, Alucard made sure of it. Since he had infiltrated her room he had made a habit of poking in to her dreams and twisting them to his liking.

"I went on a mission…I think I am allowed to be tired." Mana stated.

"Right…but you look a lot better than we do," Cain added and sipped on his tea again. Dimitri remained silent as he turned his cup around.

"How many…people have you killed Mana?" Cain asked as he looked serious at her. Mana glanced at Cain and then at Dimitri.

"Why?" Mana asked as her lips hovered over the mouth of her cup.

"You don't seem to be affected by any of this So I'm wondering if you're a seasoned assassin like Walter." Cain chuckled; Dimitri shook his head and looked back at his tea. Mana remained silent debating her answer, suddenly Cain sat down his cup in surprise.

"Don't tell me—" Cain started

"If I killed over 1000 people would you believe me?" Mana asked.

"Yeah," Cain and Dimitri said together. Mana tilted her head to the left and smirk. The two men suddenly felt nervous as she smirked.

"I'll let you guess later but for now that will remain my secret," Mana replied.

"That means she's killed a lot of people Dimitri." Cain started.

"Or she's bluffing." Dimitri added.

"Whatever you think," Mana replied as she drank her now cool tea.

"There's a legend back in my country...If you kill 1000 people you become a demon," Mana started.

"Its just a legend though." Dimitri started.

"Its been twisted so much that I am sure the origin of the legend is completely different. Just something to keep people from killing each other." Mana replied.

"So let's hope you haven't killed 1000 of anything, I don't want you turning into to a demon...we already have one scare factor here," Cain said as he leaned on to the Island. Mana looked at Cain from her cup.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Mana asked, her voice void of emotion. Cain froze immediately.

"You're screwed," Dimitri said and took a sip of his tea.

Mana continued to talk to with Cain and Dimitri for a few moments more before retiring to her room.

"Tadaima…" Man trailed off as she closed the door and neatly took off her shoes.

"Welcome back," Alucard replied. Mana quickly looked in the direction his voice came from.

"Don't act surprised," Alucard chuckled.

Mana hesitantly walked over to the Sofa that Alucard was lounging on, and noticed that he was back in his usual red attire.

"What do you want," Mana asked firmly. Alucard smirked as he continued to lounge on the sofa, his legs hanging off the arm of the sofa.

"Oh nothing…wanted to hang around before I went to bed," Alucard replied. Mana looked at her alarm clock on her night stand; it was 2:30am he still had about three hours left.

"I'm sorry Alucard–sama but you can't say here." Mana started.

"Just pretend that I am not here." Alucard smirked again.

"That is…not an easy task Alucard…sama" Mana carefully chose her words.

"I'm sure you'll do just fine," Alucard replied his smirk still present on his lips.

Mana felt her eye twitch as looked at Alucard lounging on her sofa. She knew that she wouldn't be able to get him to move, sighing walked over to her bed and began to unstrap her arm bands but quickly decided against it she felt Alucard's eyes were on her.

Mana turned around expecting Alucard to be looking at her but instead turned around into a hard surface, Alucard's chest.

"Um—" Mana started when Alucard tilted her chin up, she grabbed his wrist and squeezed.

"What are you doing?" Mana asked as she looked into his eyes.

"You have something...on your face," Alucard started as he continued to look into Mana's blue eyes.

"I can remove it myself let-" Mana started when she realized that he leaned down, his lips hovering over hers. She instantly froze as she felt his tongue brush over her lips. As quickly as he started he stopped.

"Camomile tea and blood...what an interesting taste" Alucard said as he brushed his thumb along her bottom lip. Alucard quickly stepped back dodging a swipe from Mana's holy ceramic blades. He chuckled as he looked at the flustered young woman in front of him, her cheeks were a bright pink, her hair a little frazzled.

"Well then...Good Night Little Scientist." Alucard smirked as he disappeared into the shadows.

AN: Yes Father Anderson does actually have an accent but I am not experienced in that department yet, I am working on that though. :) I also figured I should include Cain and Dimitri in more chapters because I really like them and I hope to portray how I imagine them in my head. In the next chapter I will pick up the pace for this story, Yay!

Alucard got his first taste, what's going to happen next?

*ichi,ni,san,shi = (counting) 1,2,3,4

*Urusai = Noisy/Shut up

*Ocha = Tea (usually it means Green Tea)

*Tadaima = 'I'm home'